Personal Narrative: The Championship Game

In a heartbreaking loss in game one, Centenary rallied from an 8-2 deficit to take a 9-8 lead in the bottom of the eighth. However, Trinity scored two in the ninth for the thrilling 10-9 win. With Centenary down 8-2 in the fifth, the Maroon and White erupted for five runs to cut the deficit to one. Quintanilla walked and Schimpf singled to put runners on the corners. With one out, Crowder singled up the middle for an RBI. Russell singled to load the bases, and a bases-loaded walk with two outs plated the second run. Junior Ian Graham delivered the big blow, doubling down the leftfield line to clear the bases. However, he was thrown out trying to take third

Sunday, November 3, 2013 is a day that I remember so vividly. It was the day of my first ever Patriots game. I grew up surrounded by Patriots fans, my mom, my

Finally the game started and we played well and so did they. The game was close the whole way threw and we came to the final inning tying them. We were the home team so we got to bat last. Two of the three outs

With a score of 44 to 37, the Varsity Football Team won against the Midway Panthers last Friday night at Waco.

I was walking off of the field with my teammates after two blowouts. In Steamboat on the second day. All of us were so excited to get to the pool and have some fun! Me and my baseball teammate that I was staying with meet each other there. We hurried downstairs put on our swimsuits and before you can blink we were in the water. When everybody was in the pool and before you knew it we were playing 500 with the football. After we did that for a couple of hours we went to got to the hot tub and that's when everything went bad. We had our older teammates brother which was 16. We saw some other kids in the hot tub. Then we went in and then Kelin the 16 year old said,” What are you guys here for?”

As the count goes 0-2 Shelly shoots a nasty curve ball to get the first out, the second out is also a strikeout. The third out comes with a ground ball to Colby at shortstop. All of our outs came very quick with a groundout, flyout, and strikeout. Almost all the innings went very quick especially since no you got a run, however, both teams did eventually get a hit in the 4th and 5th innings. The hits did no harm either way. We had many chances to take the lead, but we were not able to come through. With a player at the plate, and a 3-2 count, they get a walk, which puts him on first. “One pitch at a time, turn two!” Bam! A base hit to left field, now they have a runner in scoring position, that enables them to score on a base hit. Oh no, it can be, why now, a hard line drive flies through the air toward left-center field. Woho! Great play! A spectacular diving catch by Spanky. It was just what we needed. The next play we get a ground ball to Colby for the last out. Bottom of the fifth inning bases loaded, Jack’s at the plate. Crack……..a fly ball with two outs, and we can’t even get a run. That is the second time Jack has done that, with bases loaded. We were all very

It all started at the beginning of tryouts. The week of excitement and nervousness. Everyone was already making guesses on who was gonna be on the team. Then so it started, the first day was pretty easy and so was the next. The third was conditioning day, which was the worst. Then the last two days were fairly easy too. But those days were the most nerve racking. Those were the days when the cuts were made.

Once I released the baseball my heart dropped and I hoped for the best. It was one of the most stressful moments i’ve ever had in baseball. But first we should go back to when all this first started. It was a perfectly normal saturday we had a tournament like most weekend over the summer but not until I got to the field and and everyone was talking about the game did I over hear someone say this is the state tournament. This tournament ranked us in Illinois. We played the first two teams with ease we were up by five and they couldn’t seem to keep up, but the last game of the tournament was us versus the Plainfield Tornadoes. I remember that team very distinctly because of the circumstances I was in. I had pitched the first two games we played

As I stood in right field, the sun in my face, ready for anything that came my way.The first pitch was a strike. The game had now begun. All of the fans were packed into Veterans Memorial Park and cheering ever so loud for their team. The first batter struck out, and although we just started I could not help but think we were one out closer to going to state. The next two batters were also thrown out. It was now time for us, the Senior Rams to bat. The nerves were still at an all time high for everyone as we changed sides. We went down one, two, three outs and took the field again. Both of the teams were full of very quality players so everyone knew it was going to be a fantastic game. The next three innings were one, two, three innings for both teams.

I came in feeling confident and I had their last hitters coming up, seven, eight, nine, and ten. They lead off the inning with a single. Now, their eight hitter steps in, and it’s a ground ball to third! We could turn two here, but the third baseman kicks the ball and everyone’s safe. But hey, life ain’t fair.

It is 12 am and my team and I are playing against the Golden State Warriors.

It all started as a normal game day. I got up in the morning, took a shower and then proceed to put on my uniform. I put everything on just right to look like the perfect ball player. After that, I went downstairs and get some breakfast. While walking down the stairs, I hear the sound of sizzling bacon and eggs cracking. I also could smell the sweet and delicious waffles being made. When I finally reach the bottom of the stairs, I see my mother making me breakfast as she usually does before a game. "Good morning, are you ready for your game?" she asked. "Of course!" I replied, "I think I might hit a home run today." "Well I better be there to see it," she said happily. She then handed me my breakfast and I went to the table.

Last Friday my friend and I decided to go the basketball game against the Greensboro Raiders. The game was one of the important rival game in that area. There wasn’t any seats to sit so we had to stand up the entire game. However, my friend decided that since we didn’t have anything to do in it was a lot of people at the game that she would throw a party. Natalie mother was out of town for her job. She left the game early to go get things for the party from Walmart. Although I knew it wasn’t a good idea I still went ahead with the planned. I sent out messages to everyone and my contacts and also put it on snapchat. As the game was coming to an end everybody was walking around talking about the party. I left the gym and went to Natalie house

We were on a roll until. “Get Baacckkk Nooo.” We all yelled Brady got called out at the plate and then Pavel just tried to run to third when someone was already on the base. We blew that inning and the score is still 1-0. It was the last inning top 6 and we were up. We strung a few hits and then “Strike 3!!!” it was over we lost after the amazing no-hit performance by me and Will it was all over. Balling all our eyes out we stood there waiting to go see our parents.

Lacrosse. My sport. My passion. My game. It isn’t 10 people on a field it is 10 people who are engaged in the game. It isn’t people just wearing helmets and padding it is people who show their passion for the game. My belief is lacrosse.